Class Tuning Incoming -- March 17

Community General Discussion
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This is a bad omen this early in the expac, no other way of putting it.
I’ve never witnessed such a confused mixture of “listening to feedback” (that was given during the beta at the latest) and “nerfing x into the ground” before the season has even truly started..?

Where is the logic behind any of these massive nerfs prior to the season actually kicking off?

Is there really that little to look forward to content wise within Midnight?

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You will still be S tier in PvP tomorrow don’t worry.

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any chance to fix affliction low output damage?

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We’ve added the following additional adjustments to the OP. All will be implemented during maintenance in this region.

Classes

Death Knight

  • Unholy
    • Resolved an issue causing Magus of the Dead to have unintended wait time between casts.
    • Resolved an issue causing Let Terror Reign to put Whitemane’s Death Coil on cooldown.

Evoker

  • Augmentation
    • All ability and pet damage increased by 13%.
    • Livery of the Black Talon 2-piece: Eruption damage increase reduced to 10% (was 15%). Ebon Might extension bonus reduced to 0.1 seconds (was 0.25 seconds).
    • Livery of the Black Talon 4-piece: Empower spell cool down rate bonus reduced to 10% (was 20%). Empower spell damage bonus reduced to 10% (was 20%).

Priest

  • Shadow
    • Fixed an issue causing Shadow Word: Madness to increase the damage the target takes from Shadowy Apparitions by 100%.
      • Developers’ notes: This fix would be a large damage loss, so we’re making further adjustments in our tuning pass for the specialization to be appropriately powerful.
    • All damage increased by 16%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Mind Blast damage increased by 30%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Mind Flay damage increased by 30%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Idol of N’Zoth damage increased by 30%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Shadow Word: Madness damage increased by 30%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Void Torrent damage increased by 30%. Not applied to PvP combat.

Player versus Player

Priest

  • Shadow
    • All damage increased by 7% in PvP combat.
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Certainly the 20% nerf is a joke Right?
Shadow tuning?
Certainly the 20% nerf is a joke Right?
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Disregard the previous question. OP was updated to reflect these updated changes.

Do the Mind Blast/Mind Flay buffs include Void Blast/Mind Flay: Insanity?

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It says they edited the op so whatever is there is correct. That is some wild last minute tuning. I have no idea where that leaves shadow priest

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fix demo damage stop being inept plz

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That was fast.

Thank you for the bug fixes. Can you look into fixing Unholy Devotion and Runic Corruption next?

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that blue crab (seriously was a marine biologist before hand, TF? doesnt translate to game balance… kinesiologist and PT and nutritionist here. hire me blizz) can go out for a long walk to the ocean back where he belongs

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Class bug Fixes?!?!

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Arms is one of the weakest specs in single target even with the coming buffs. Please help!

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and that sjust pve buddy, wait till you play it in pvp. it makes you wanna buy some rope

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If the changes to Frost go live (and I’m not delusional enough to believe they aren’t), that’s it for me all.

Feral is already ruined, and now they’re gonna :poop: all over bear and frost mage :unamused_face:.

Yeah, I’m not looking for another main this late in the game. I mean; They only had an entire beta, pre-patch, and early access to address any issues.

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…again, why is moonbear getting crucified for Druid of the Claw’s sins?

Moonbears weren’t doing the levels of damage that DotC bears were doing to warrant a 20% nerf to basically all their damage. The only times you’d see a moonbear even come close to a DotC bear is if they’re doing a mega pull with all their CDs popped.

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Wish there was more clarification on the Shadow Priest changes.
It’s nice to get changes, but it’s all vague and abra kadabra.
If the Mind Blast buff does not affect it’s upgraded version in Void Blast, VB might do less damage than MB.
16% Aura buff is nice, but if it doesn’t affect our pets, then it’s also kind of meh. Can’t tell from these patch notes if it does or doesn’t.

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Man, no one saw that last, last minute Disc priest buff coming either . . .

How about now . . .?

:dracthyr_cry_animated:

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  • Any plans on solving the issue causing disarms preventing the dk to cast spells? like necrotic coil?
  • Any plan to solve the issue of my undead pets being fear-able?
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why wouldnt they be fearable

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coz undead …. you ok?

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buddy thinks hes just gonna have 20 pets smackin ya with no fear x.x

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